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Providing Hope Launches HOPE for Hunger Business Alliance!

Building on two years of partnership with local businesses at the Jersey Shore, Providing Hope announced the creation of its HOPE for Hunger Business Alliance. “We wanted to formalize our relationship with the business community who have been so generous,” founder Rosemary Sherman explained. “We have over 50 businesses that support our mission. This will give business owners a chance to come together in a movement to address hunger in our community.”

Alliance membership raises the visibility of business as they create awareness of how nearly 62,000 people in Monmouth County don’t know where they will get their next meal. (how to put food on the table). Membership fees support community campaigns to find sustainable solutions to hunger such as organic community gardens where the produce is donated to food insecure families, environmental education in local schools, workshops to encourage residents to grow their own food, and job creation.

Providing Hope has been the catalyst for several efforts benefiting both businesses and residents. Its HOPE 4 Shore in 2013 drove traffic to shore businesses as it raised funds for Sandy relief. Those who made donations to Providing Hope’s Restoring Dreams campaign received a commemorative beach badge that more than 100 businesses honored with a discount.

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More recently, Providing Hope was able to offer over 700 meals to food insecure families with assistance from our local businesses who were committed to the fight against hunger. “Bringing awareness to our local businesses of the necessity to help our own community members suffering from hunger was very important to me”, lifelong resident and former Long Branch Board of Education member, Rose Widdis explained.

 Providing Hope, a local non-profit organization founded in 2011, envisions a world where attention to the whole person – body, mind and spirit-leads to healthy and strong communities.  Our programs and alliances are based on HOPE:

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Help—Meeting immediate needs; 

Options—Figuring out the root causes of problems, possible solutions, and prevention; 

Pathways—Identifying /uncovering resources and coming up with a plan of action;  

Encouragement—Creating a supportive community to help realize highest potential. 

 Providing Hope accomplishes this by forming alliances of families, schools, community groups, businesses, churches, municipalities and concerned individuals. 

 For more information about Hope for Hunger Business Alliance, please contact Providing Hope at info@providinghopenj.org or call 732-268-7235, visit our website @ www.providinghopenj.org.

 


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